Eman Abdelhadi Posted Oct. 7 Anniversary Video After 1,200 Hamas Killings, Drawing Michigan Campaign Backlash
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 14
Eman Abdelhadi Posted Oct. 7 Anniversary Video After 1,200 Hamas Killings, Drawing Michigan Campaign Backlash
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 14
Summary
An Oct. 7, 2024 Instagram video showed University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi offering an “October 7th blessing” a year after the Hamas-led attacks that killed about 1,200 people in Israel.
Abdelhadi opened with “Allahu Akbar,” spoke of oppression and justice, and did not mention Jewish victims; on Friday she said Rabbis4Ceasefire organized the event as a moment of grief for lives lost between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 7, 2024.
The resurfaced clip quickly became a political issue because Abdelhadi is the half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whose campaign said he loves his sister but disagrees with some of her rhetoric and foreign-policy views.
Mike Rogers allies and other critics used the video to attack El-Sayed, whose own Israel-Gaza comments have already drawn scrutiny during a Senate race in which he recently led Haley Stevens by 15 points in a poll.